Need help mounting my eclipse!
 

I bought the 1/25 Fast and the Furious AMT Eclipse model kit. I haven't started building yet because I don't have any paint, but already I've run across problems:
the wheelbase is just a little bit larger than the longest wheelbase setting, and I don't know what to do. any help?

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P.S. I also bought a revell camaro with the same problem.

probably because these are 1/28 not 1/24 and also it looks too wide

Well you are probably going to shorten the body to make it fit.

Alright, well, the body isn't too wide, the way it is there now is without anything holding it up, no tabs or velcro or anything, just resting.

Also, I was hoping you wouldn't say that I would have to trim it :( , I don't wanna slice the body and then epoxy it back up.

Looks like you can slice the front bumper off sand it a bit n throw it bak on.... I really don't see how else you could fix tat, sry for ur problem, it will probley turn out good tho.

Well its either shortening the body or finding some way to extend the chassis.

You might be able to grind down the insides of the fenders where it's too close to the wheels and then add a bit to the other side.... Maybe.

i could always make it have huge a$$ wheelwells like the first gen of some other car. i think the epoch spec1's had the biggies.

edit: i have all the supplies to make resin molds from back when i wanted to mold zipzap bodies. you think I could cut down the body and use resin to smooth it out?

I think that if you cut it and just slather it with epoxy or whatever you wanna use, then smooth it down with a dremel, or go old-school with sandpaper.

(looks at avatar) oh yeah anyways ur probably gona have to do some cutting and i was gona do the eclipse body also, good luck let no how it turns out :bdrop: (keeps looking):rolleyes: :eek:

how do you set the chassie to its "longest setting"?? does it just come that way??

to get it to it's longest setting, on the bottom are two screws, they're near the back of the car. unscrew those, and you can slide the car shorter or longer. for the longer, you will need the long driveshaft, whichcomes in all the cars but the rsx i think.

ok, i decided to chop it up, and work from there and see what happens. there's approx. a half inch wheelbase difference between the car and the body. i was thinking of taking a strip of masking tape 1/2in. thick, and running it across the doors/roof of the car. this'll serve as a guide as to what part i'll chop out. any ideas as to what to use for cutting? im hesitant to use the dremel.

Here's an image (sorry i forgot to resize) of what i plan to chop out. the blue strip is tape, and everything under it is going. i figured that's the easiest part to chop out and repair, because there's no glass windowing on the sides, so i wouldn't have to worry about that, and it's not crossing through too many things. but if you see a better spot to cut away, please tell me.

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that looks like a good place but hows the scoop gonna look after you do that?

im not sure...i think i'll just pray and hope i have good sanding skills.

I say you get your chassis to the longest setting and see how THAT looks first. If it is long enough then go return ur supra (thats what I assumed you had from your frequency) and get a skyline. That has the longest chassis setting. Hopefully you done have to cut that body because it looks soooo close to getting to the perfect size

everything but the RSX is at its "longest setting"

right now it is at the longest setting, and im getting more worried now. i photoshop tested how it would look if i cut out that area...highly disproportionate. so now im looking at the chassis.

if there was just one more length setting it would fit. so im thinking of adding one. im thinking of extending it with a thin piece of plywood wiht screw holes in it, about 1/4 in. long. My old technology teacher had us do a project where he gave us metal axle-rods, and now that i think about it, they looked like extra long driveshafts for these, so i might wanna go about contacting him for some.

why dont you just move the back wheel well forward?

thats what i am doing with my s-2000

That's going to be a tough one. I tried the same thing on an integra body I'm working on right now. I'm impatient so I went ahead and cut it about where you marked off. IT was ok, but the roof looked way out of whack. I just chopped the top off and went from there. Just try different locations to see where you can get it to generally line back up. As far as how to cut it, tis is what I did. I'm sure there are much safer ways to go about it, but once again I'm very impatient. I started to same way you did, put a piece of masking tape down that was as wide as I needed. I cut down the middle with a dremel. This is where you can screw up easily. I took an exacto and slowly scored down the edge of the tape. DO THIS SLOW!! Do this a few times and cut all the way through, or go most of the way through and start bending the cut with needle nose pliers It should snap off clean. Then sand down and stick it back together. Hope this helps. Good luck, that would be a sick body.

thanks for the tips, i'll tell you how it goes. i'm also working a camaro body that'll be MUCH easier to cut, the roof is almost completely straight, so are the doors and everything else, it'll line up like magic.